cm3 port fails to install immediately after the download, tar failure?

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Thank you, Saj, for your research into the issue.

I'll take a look at figuring out how to use it directly prior to figuring
out how to fix the port (that, to me, is a daunting concept).

Thanks,
Ken Wolcott

On Sun, Mar 16, 2025 at 4:46 PM Saj Goonatilleke <sg at redu.cx> wrote:

> On Sun, 16 Mar 2025, at 09:24, Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
> >   I was curious about the port of the Modula-3 language...
> >
> > port search cm3
> > cm3 @5.2.6_1 (lang)
> >     Critical Mass Modula-3 Compiler
>
> read the port:
> port cat cm3
>
> # M3 requires a bootstrap compiler to build
> # This port currently supports only Darwin/PPC
>
> I don't think that port going to work on a contemporary Mac any more.
> https://modula3.elegosoft.com/cm3/releng/#targets
> The missing system.tgz file is the platform-specific bit that is not
> available for x86_64 (amd64) nor arm64.
>
> Upstream development appears to have moved to GitHub.  Newer releases are
> available here.
> https://github.com/modula3/cm3/releases/tag/d5.11.4
> https://github.com/modula3/cm3/wiki/Getting-Started:-macOS
>
> > This release introduces a new installer that supports a simple,
> source-based distribution containing a bootstrap compiler in C++.
>
> I think this could be made to work now that the bootstrap compiler may
> itself be built from source.
>
> There is no port maintainer for cm3 so you will probably need to fix this
> yourself. :)
>
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